Team:Freiburg/Team

Who are we?

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This year’s iGEM team consists of 14 students from many distinct scientific fields including biology, chemistry, medicine, biochemistry/biophysics and informatics. Our team is supervised by Jun. Prof. Maximilian Ulbrich and Dr. Nicole Gensch, both being part of the scientific staff of the BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies. We also get advice and support from Luisa Keilholz and Adrian Fischer, some former iGEM participants who are sharing their experiences and knowledge with us.

Niklas (20)

B.Sc.Biology

Niklas - Brain of the team and the one you will find in lab on every time of the day (or rather “night”) doing his job as head of cloning group. Also he is responsible for modeling, internal wiki and registry pages. Most impressive thing of this guy are the sparkles in his eyes when telling someone about all the crazy and cool stuff he is learning and when his brain gets filled with new facts and pictures of glowing gels. Apart from that, Niklas is the guy who brought the core of the team together. Without him. No one of us would be here. Thank YOU! When it gets late at night you can clearly see the mischief in his eyes and know he is up to something! Always tries to lighten the mood with his (most of the time pretty dumb and silly) jokes:D

Katharina (21)

B.Sc. Biology

Katha - but first, coffee! Katha is one of our most precious team members. She may not always be the most approachable person in the morning without coffee, but if you have a lot of stuff on your mind or to do in the lab, she is always the first to offer you some help. Even though she herself is a group leader in lab for protein purification and the 3rd chairmen of our nonprofit association. Her other tasks mainly include checking of requirements for medals and prizes and the sponsoring, but honestly, she helps out wherever she can and is needed.

Nathalie (23)

B.Sc. Biology

Nathalie - one of the hardest working team members we got ! You could consider her the head of the dry lab since she is responsible for all the organisational stuff, human practice and most importantly our finances. Without her, the team would probably have been all over the place. Her part as a team leader is not always the easiest since she has to remind us to do certain things at least once a day. She also makes sure we don’t miss any deadlines and lives out her creativity with the styling of our poster, presentation, external wiki and all the graphics.

Danja (21)

B.Sc. Biology

Danja - Our mother of dragons .. ehm .. I mean .. producer of Spores! Danja is doing all the work the other teams rely on as the head of the bacillus basic group . Sometimes this is hard, we know, but we all appreciate her work and could not think about iGEM without her! Besides being awesome in the lab for most of the day, she always has an open ear to all your problems. Apart from being responsible for sponsoring and taking care that we don’t miss to fullfil all iGEM requirements, she helps writing the texts for this Wiki.

Christian (30)

M.Sc. Biophysics/Biochemistry

Why do I participate in iGEM

Hobbies (before iGEM)

Kevin (26)

M.Sc. Chemistry

Why do I participate in iGEM

Hobbies (before iGEM)

Wladislaw (25)

M.Sc. Biophysics/Biochemistry

Wlad - our lab mother. Wlad is our trump card when it comes to the laboratory work. He has a lot of experience and is keen to share them with you if you are interested. Do you have a problem or a question about a method or the project in general? Just go and ask him, I will assure you he will give you more than enough information. Wlad is also head of the wet lab and one of the most dedicated team members, who you will always find in the lab at night. We are really thankful for you to enrich our team with your kind advice.